Living Fossils: Ferns and Crabs

There are literally hundreds of different types of animals and plants which are alive and well and which are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils.

Most of the public are unaware that there are literally hundreds
of different types of animals and plants which are alive and well and which
are essentially unchanged from the way they appear as fossils. Such facts make
it difficult to believe that these forms were separated by those imagined millions
of evolutionary years.

Each issue of Creation magazine shows you examples, courtesy
of Dr Joachim Scheven, who oversees the world's largest collection of living
fossils in his faith-funded creation museum LEBENDIGE VORWELT at Unterm Hagen
22, D-58119 Hagen, Germany.

The overwhelming message of the fossil record is one of staying
the same, not evolving. Of course, many types have gone extinct, and so arc
not found living. These types also show no sign of real evolution throughout
their `stay' in the record.

Above:
A living Comptonia peregrina from North America.

Top right: The same species of Comptonia
found as a fossil, supposedly millions of years older. No evolution
has taken place.

Middle right: Living horseshoe crabs, Limulus
polyphemus.

Bottom right: Fossil Limulus from Solnhofen
limestone—Upper Jurassic (supposedly about 140 million years
old). A serious challenge to evolution.

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